Menstruation is Murder!

[elfs]

Huckabee endorses personhood for fertilized eggs. Yeah, uh, good luck with that whole campaign thing, Huck.

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[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

I agree that, if the conception and miscarriage is undetected, there would be nothing that would give reason to conduct an investigation. Referring to the percentage of zygote mortality was merely to illustrate how severe the natural culling of fertilized ova is, without any external 'assistance', and how many newly-defined 'people' could be used as leverage for more restrictions if such legislation were enacted.

Depending on which religious belief you hold, though, a 'person' failing to implant after conception is, by definition, consigned to Purgatory for having died unbaptized and bearing the Original Sin, which makes that occurrence being an act of God prima facie evidence that God is a child abuser -- and an omniscient deity would have known that the child was to be consigned to Purgatory before its conception, which renders it malice aforethought... but that's just one more of the internal contradictions that make it difficult for me to swallow Christian theology.

However, I can easily see the steady progression of 'expanded concern' for the unborn moving from making abortion murder to 'willful contribution to miscarriage' to outlawing things like smoking and drinking for pregnant women to requiring doctors to report all pregnancies among their patients so that the 'children' can be protected to, if the citizenry allow the usurpation of a woman's right to her own body to continue to an extreme, mandatory monthly pregnancy tests to ensure that the unborn are identified and protected as early in their life as possible.